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War and Japan: The Non-Fiction Manga of Mizuki Shigeru

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Matthew Penney
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Relatively few creators of Japanese popular culture works about the Asia-Pacific War are military veterans. More Japanese experienced the bombings of Japanese cities and accompanying hardship than fought overseas and survived to return to Japan. Japanese who experienced traumatic events such as the atomic bombings or the destruction of Tokyo and Osaka through firebombing used popular media such as anime, manga, and film to come to terms with their experiences. Typically they have not dwelt only on that experience.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 10 , Special Issue S3: Course Reader No. 3. War in Japanese Popular Culture , January 2012 , pp. 15 - 21
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[1] Mizuki Shigeru, Honjitsu noMizuki-san (Today's Mr. Mizuki), Tokyo: Soshisha, 2005, p. 98.

[2] Ibid., p. 39.

[3] Ibid., p. 39.

[4] Ibid., p. 39.

[5] Ibid., p. 135.

[6] Mizuki Shigeru, Akuma-kun, Tokyo: Kodansha, 2008.

[7] Mizuki Shigeru, Hitler, Tokyo: Chikuma Shoten, 1990.

[8] Mizuki Shigeru, “Soin Gyokusai seyo!” in Aa Gyokusai (Ah, Death to the Last), Tokyo: Ozora Shuppan, 2007.

[9] Mizuki Shigeru, Showa-shi, Vol. 1, Tokyo: Kodansha, 1989.

[10] Shimura Kunihiro, Mizuki Shigeru no miryoku (The Charm of Mizuki Shigeru), Tokyo: Bensei Shuppan, 2002, p. 43.

[11] Kobayashi Yoshinori, Sensoron, Tokyo: Gentosha, 1998. See also Rumi Sakamoto, “Will you go to war? Or will you stop being Japanese?” Nationalism and History in Kobayashi Yoshinori's Sensoron”

[12] Arakawa Hiromu, Hagane no renkinjutsu-shi, Vol. 1, Tokyo: Square Enix, 2002.

[13] Ichikawa Miu, et al., Senso no shinjitsu, Tokyo: Bunkasha, 2008.

[14] Mizuki Shigeru, “Naki senyu ga egakaseta senki manga” (War Manga that My Dead Comrades Made Me Draw) in Aa gyokusai, Tokyo: Azora Shuppan, 2007, pp., 185-186.